What kind of person are you?Questions 1. Do you always do your own homework? 2. Do you ask for help when it is necessary? 3. Do you get on well with your classmates? 4. Do you help others with their work if they ask you? Yes No

Questions5. Are you willing to do public service work without pay? 6. Your friend needs for bus fare home but you want to buy something to eat.

Yes No

7. Would you refuse to help?8. Are you active in school activities?

Questions 9. Do you have hobbies? 10. Do you easily lose heart when

Yes No

you are in trouble?11. Do you often help old people or little children when they need help?

See what kind of person you are?1-3 yeses: You have to work hard in

your life and study. There’s a long way for you to go before you get some success. ?4-7 yeses: You’re doing well, and you know how to be happy. You are an active person and well received by people around you.

? 8 yeses and above: You love your life

and can enjoy it. You are hard

working and always ready to help.So you are likely to get more success.

What is a great person?A great person is one who has followed his / her ideas and sacrificed something so that they could be realized.

What is a famous person?A famous person may be well-known but if he / she has not gone through struggles and difficulties for their

noble cause, they can’t not be called agreat person.

a great never lose heart personmake great contributions to mankind energetic passionate

brave kind get on well with others be active in society activities do public service work without pay

hard-working intelligent determined generous

helpful honest confident unselfish

?Why do you admire him/her most?

What personal qualities do these people have?

Look at the pictures of someimportant or great people and try

to guess who they are.

Sun Yat-senHe founded the first Republic in China in 1911 after many years’fighting. He strongly believed in the three principles: nationalism; People’s rights; people’s livelihood.

Yao Ming

He is the best basketball player in our country. He enters the NBA in America.

Bill GatesHe set up Microsoft

Company and makes hisown software. He is the

richest man in the worldnow.

Yang LiweiHe is an astronaut(宇航员)in China. He is the first astronaut piloting a spacecraft (航天器), traveling in the space on board Shenzhou-5 in 2003.

Albert EinsteinBorn in Germany; won the Noble Prize

in 1921 for histheory in physics;

lived the rest of hislife in the USA

Qian Xuesen“Father” of the Chinese space program; one of the leading rocket engineers; worked on top-secret projects all his life.

Abraham Lincoln, in 1860, became President of the United States. Then he worked still harder for the freedom of the slaves. But the Southern states wanted to set up a state of their own, where they could be free to keep black slaves.

Lincoln said that it was not right for the South to break away from the Union. Fighting broke out between the North and the South. This was the American Civil War, which lasted four years. In the end the Northern and Southern states joined up again as one country and the slaves were set free.

Marie Curie( 1867- 1934 ) Polish scientist; won the Noble Prize for Physics in 1903; won the Noble Prize for Chemistry in 1911

What qualities make a great person?do their best set up an aim never give up pay more time never lose heart when in trouble be willing to do public serviceinsist on what they pursue get on well with others be active in society activities help others intelligent

Discussion

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Speaking TaskWhat qualities do great people have? Choose 4 of the following and explain